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Re: Using Visual C++ under Cygwin build system
- To: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, "Chad Loder" <cloder at acm dot org>
- Subject: Re: Using Visual C++ under Cygwin build system
- From: "Matthew Smith" <matts at bluesguitar dot org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:51:42 -0500
- References: <200010032006.e93K6ih16791@laxmls02.socal.rr.com>
> Hello. I am developing a build system using Cygwin (GNU make, bash,
> etc.) on Windows 2000.
>
> Some of our subsystems must be built using Visual C++. Obviously
> Visual C++ will not understand paths like "/c/foo/bar.c" (where
> /c is the Cygwin mounted C: drive). However, since GNU make will
> be producing targets and processing prerequisites with precisely
> those kinds of paths, I foresee problems.
Use the 'cygpath' program included with cygwin. It will convert back and
forth between cygwin and windows paths. An example of using this in a make
file would be like this:
RES_FILE := $(shell cygpath -w $(OBJ_DIR)/resource.o)
cheers,
-Matt Smith
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